The rhetoric of immediacy : a cultural critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Faure, Bernard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1991.
Subjects:
Zen Buddhism.
Bouddhisme zen.
RELIGION / Buddhism / General
Zen Buddhism
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page
  • Half-title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Prologue
  • From Margins to Mediation
  • Methodological Polytheism
  • Chapter One. The Differential Tradition
  • Six patriarchs in search of a tradition
  • The Second Order
  • An alienating tradition?
  • Tradition as kinship
  • Making a difference
  • Chapter Two. Sudden/Gradual: A Loose Paradigm
  • The Semantic Field
  • The Ideological (Dis)Content
  • Phenomenological Analysis
  • Point defuite? Variations on subitism
  • The gradual perspective
  • Chapter Three. The Twofold Truth of Immediacy
  • Double trouble
  • The "Naturalist Heresy
  • Skillful Means
  • The Means And The Ends
  • The Chan denial of hierarchy
  • The intermediary world
  • Chapter Four. Chan/Zen and Popular Religion(s)
  • A Theoretical Parenthesis
  • Popular religion and its correlatives
  • The East Asian Context
  • From primitives to Zen, and conversely
  • Chapter Five. The Thaumaturge and its Avatars (I)
  • The Thaumaturge Tradition in China
  • Demons et merveilles: Early Chan thaumaturges
  • The vanishing mediator
  • The Buddhist ambivalence toward thaumaturges
  • The Domestication of The Thaumaturge
  • Chapter Six. The Thaumaturge and its Avatars (II)
  • The Emergence of The Trickster
  • A bittersweet friendship
  • On the margins of Chan
  • Of madness as one of the fine arts
  • The Bodhisattva Ideal
  • The Return of The Thaumaturge
  • Chapter Seven. Metamorphoses of the Double (I): Relics
  • The Cult of Sarika
  • The Iconoclastic Reaction
  • Chapter Eight. Metamorphoses of the Double (II): "Sublime Corpses" and Icons
  • Chan "Flesh-Bodies
  • The Semantic Evolution
  • Bones of Contention
  • Huineng's two bodies
  • Dissemination of charisma and sectarianism
  • Icons And Chinso
  • Transmission or diffusion?
  • Figures of the double.
  • Chapter Nine. The Ritualization of Death
  • The Chan Denial of Death And The Afterlife
  • The funeral paradox
  • The Ritual Domestication of Death
  • Preliminaries
  • The liminal stage: Chan funerary ritual
  • From Defilement to Purity
  • Chapter Ten. Dreams Within a Dream
  • Methodological Caveat
  • Asian Dreams
  • The dream metaphor
  • Dreaming in Chan/Zen
  • Dreams and hagiography
  • Dreaming Practice
  • Myoe's Record of Dreams
  • A realistic dreamer
  • Dreams of ascent and voices of dissent
  • Chapter Eleven. Digression: The Limits of Transgression
  • Tales of Monastic Dereliction
  • Chan/Zen Attitudes toward Sexuality
  • Images In Women
  • The rhetoric of equality
  • Remarkable women
  • Ikkyii and women
  • Sodom And Gomorh
  • The sword and the chrysanthemum
  • Chapter Twelve. The Return of the Gods
  • Militant Syncretism
  • Chan/Zen Mythological Imagery
  • The Cult of The Arhats
  • Zen And The Kami
  • Gods, ghosts, and ancestors
  • Chapter Thirteen. Ritual Antiritualism
  • Another Rite Controvers
  • The Chan critique of ritualism
  • Chan/Zen Liturgy
  • incantatory Zen
  • Ritual Omnipresent
  • Meditation as ritual
  • The ritualization of life
  • Ritual As Ideology
  • Ritual Mediation
  • Epilogue
  • Dichotomies in Question(S)
  • The Paradoxes of Mediation
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources
  • Index.

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